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Friday, March 29, 2013

Sepia Saturday: Coffee Break

Sepia Saturday challenges
bloggers to share family history through old photographs.

This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt features two men
leaning in the doorway of a coffee shop.
Meet my paternal grandfather Fred Robert Slade. He’s not in a shop, but I’m pretty certain he’s
drinking coffee and leaning slightly on the kitchen table.

Granny wrote on the back: Fred and coffee 1953

Do like my granddaddy – grab a cup of coffee (or other
beverage of choice) and relax looking at some photos of Fred Robert Slade (Nov
8, 1901 Princess Anne County, Virginia – Feb 4, 1983 Portsmouth, Virginia).

Fred and Julia Slade with a friend 1940

Granddaddy is inspecting those oranges as if he had grown them himself.

Granddaddy is on the right.

Fred and Julia Slade at their house
on Tanner Place, Portsmouth, Virginia 1949

Fred Slade with his first grandchild

(Who is this adorable child? Walk on, Girl!)

I have no story.
Consider this contribution to Sepia Saturday as my own coffee break.

If you're ready for a break, visit my friends at Sepia Saturday. You can lean on them.

I'd say you have shared lots of story, right here in all these photos. Great family memories, and some of them bring lots of questions to me. On Tanner Place, why does that sound so interesting to me? But wow, great cars in the driveway, and what a charming (good sized garage) but mostly what is the small sign in the center with the horse on it? Please tell us more!

OK, now I have to wonder what Joycian stream-of-consciousness was at work sending you to that YouTube. It's perfect. I think my granddaddy must have been the prototype for the Del Monte man. Well, not the second one - the granddaddy I remember was too much of a gentleman.

I got stuck at the first photo. I lived with my grandparents as a little girl in the 50s and I find a warmth when I see pictures like yours. My grandparents kitchen table sat at the exact same angle next to the entry into the kitchen. I wonder if the napkin holder was in the shape of a tea pot or coffee pot? It looks like it could be. My preoccupation with vintage items had me looking at that tablecloth too. I purchased one at an estate sale that looks very much like it. I need to go look and see if the design inside the squares is the same. This one looks like it could be shamrocks and makes me wonder if it was green and white. MIne is pink.

I took a look at my table cloth. I think it is the same design. MIne is dark pink, so maybe not green shamrocks after all. I haven't used it on my table yet. Maybe I'll put it on today in honor of your Granddaddy. lean back in my chair, and have a cup of tea.

A perfect breaktime post but I suppose there are morning Sepians and evening/midnight/noontime Sepians too. As I'm an evening blog reader and morning blog writer, I have no coffee tonight. Will ice cream do?

And I'm having coffee while reading this. Nice set of photos!!Quite a catch, that fish. Love that other post you did about Easter eggs. You looked mighty fine in that suit, and those shoes!!! And Mary is a riot!!:)~ HUGZ

That's too funny about the tablecloth I had to go back here and take a peek. The color of yours was the same too? That is amazing, I would have thought that maybe it was green on the design, what a cool eye she had to pick up on that!

In response to the horse sign on the garage door on Tanner Place. Do you remember there were several families in Cradock that kept horses? Margaret Mixon for one, she and I used to ride Sugar around Cradock and I think Peggy Ann had several friends who kept horses.

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